Among the seven trillion people who are - at least officially - Cooperative citizens, you are nobody. So far, anyway. You've got a ship, some weapons, and enough spare cash to get started - and one day, you might get the fame, wealth or glory you want. Perhaps one day, everyone might know your name. If, that is, you can survive that long.

The two thousand star systems of the Cooperative once enjoyed a golden age of peace and prosperity, and perhaps the wealthiest of them can still pretend to. The trade ships that once safely travelled between planets now have to be well armed and escorted to fend off pirate attacks, from small-time criminals desperate for their next meal, to powerful robber barons extracting tithes from everyone who passes through their space.

The Cooperative's police force, concentrated near a few influential planets, can no longer maintain order. The mercenaries they hire for a few credits a kill are too few, too unreliable to do so either. And in the darkness between the stars, an old enemy lurks, fearless, perhaps waiting for order to collapse entirely.

Good luck, Commander.

Oolite is inspired by the 8-bit classic Elite, and many aspects of gameplay will be familiar to players of that game. In the tradition of open-world games, there's no overall story: you can be a millionaire trader, a veteran combateer, a feared pirate, a lonely miner, a notorious smuggler, or all of them, or something else entirely, based on your own actions.

I'm really into re-living my childhood with emulators. I use Kega Fusion, SNES9X, ePSXe, and PCSX2. I find myself playing ePSXe and PCSX2 the most since I still have stacks of old PS and PS2 disks laying around. A lot of great games in those eras...

MMcD488 wrote:I'm really into re-living my childhood with emulators. I use Kega Fusion, SNES9X, ePSXe, and PCSX2. I find myself playing ePSXe and PCSX2 the most since I still have stacks of old PS and PS2 disks laying around. A lot of great games in those eras...

I still have all those consoles and play them on a regular basis. Good times...

For me would be all of the grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive such as Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings 2, Hearts of Iron IV and Stellaris, the best collection of history based strategy games out there by far! and I should include Civ V in there and L4D2, but I will kill for a native port of Skyrim and Oblivion

Thankfully, most of my Steam games had Linux versions. Now I only buy games that have a Linux version as well as a Windows version.

Favorites, In order:
X3: Terran Conflict (I will get that damned HUB finished!)
7 Days to Die (After each update it tends to take a bit for them to get to fixing Linux, but it still works well.)
Gnomoria
Kerbal Space Program
Shoppe Keep
Metro 2033 Redux
Divinity: Original Sin
The Talos Principle
Brutal Legend (a little buggy)
And, of course, Minecraft.

Several people have mentioned Neverwinter Nights 1, and since I absolutely love that game from my Windows days (one reason I still dual boot), now I'm gonna have to see about getting it to run in Linux too! OMG I love creating modules for that game.

Other Linux games I love are: Minetest, and the Mario knock-offs (SuperTux or something, can't remember exact name since my computer is down for modding, repairs, and upgrades).... I know I have a few others, but I just can't think of them right now. Been a year since I had a working computer (extreme procrastination FTW!).

Will have to check out some of the other games you guy have mentioned, most of which I didn't know could be run in Linux, especially natively.

MMcD488 wrote:I'm really into re-living my childhood with emulators. I use Kega Fusion, SNES9X, ePSXe, and PCSX2. I find myself playing ePSXe and PCSX2 the most since I still have stacks of old PS and PS2 disks laying around. A lot of great games in those eras...

I do the same often as well. I find that sometimes going back and replaying old games is more fun than new.

i was surprised to not see one of the oldest mmorpg's for Linux listed here yet...Eternal Lands. i liked it so much i got the windows version when my Linux HD crashed. Its an older game but well worth a look. The game can be pure crafting or combat or a mix of both. The gfx might be a bit old for some people but the story line is well written as YOU write your own as you play . Happy gaming all...
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